What Sad Is

Davies, Richard/Bottani, Andrea: Modes of Existence Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, ONTOS, September 2006 ISBN: 3938793120
The volume collects essays by an international team of philosophers aimed at elucidating three fundamental and interconnected themes in ontology. In the first instance, there is the issue of the kind of thing that, in the primary sense, is or exists: must the primitive terms be particular or universal Any reply will itself raise the question of how to treat discourse that appears to refer to things that cannot be met with in time and space: what difference is there between saying that someone is not sad and saying that something does not exist If we can speak meaningfully about fictions, what makes those statements true (or false) and how can the entities in question be identified Assessment of the options that have been opened up in these fields since the work of Bertrand Russell and Alexius Meinong at the beginning of the twentieth century remains an important testing-ground for metaphysical principles and intuitions.

NEUBUCH! 2006. 240 p. 220 mm x 156 mm x 22 mm; Philosophische Forschung Bd.5

[KW: Ontologie, Logik, Existenz]

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Dr Daniel Freeman: Use Your Head A Guided Tour of the Human Mind, JOHN MURRAY PUBLISHERS, 051 ISBN: 1848543255
With practical advice on how to overcomes phobias, addictions, and insomnia, this definitive manual for the brain provides a comprehensive look at what makes us tick Having trouble sleeping Suffering from panic attacks This book helps readers pinpoint their symptoms, then provides practical advice on how to overcome these difficulties. Offering readers the opportunity to revolutionize the way they think, the Freeman brothers unravel the secrets of the mind and explain the scientific facts behind common behaviors. For everyone wondering why they think, feel, and act how they do, or what exactly makes them happy, sad, angry, or anxious, this is essential reading. Armed with key psychological insights, readers can then apply them to everyday situations and understand why they are attracted to certain people, or remember faces rather than names. Written in a fresh, anecdoctal style, this book is clear, concise, and immediately relevant.

NEW 198X27X132 199 mm x 128 mm x 25 mm

[KW: Gehirn, Denken]

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Schneider, Helena: "Survival factors" in Frank McCourt s "Angela s Ashes" Essay, GRIN VERLAG, Juli 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638662241
Essay aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, einseitig bedruckt, Note: A , Veranstaltung: Seminar 20th century writing in English Course: EFL and English Literature, 5 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. ( p. 1 ) These sentences at the beginning of Angela's Ashes summarize very briefly what this novel is about: the survival of a miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Indeed this childhood was shaped by a strict religious upbringing, by poverty and starvation, humiliating experiences, diseases and even death. So what does make this story an exception worth to be readIt obviously must have to do something with survival.How come the hero of this story did not go mad like one of his classmate's mother who had regularly been carried to the lunatic asylum How come he did not resign like his mother permanently desperate over their miserable situation Why did he not become like his father and many other Irish men described in the book, drinking their wages and singing sad songs about brave soldiers ready to die for Ireland Was he just lucky or where there any special factors which enabled him to come through the first 19 years of his life What are the reasons for his pure physical but also mental survival In this essay I am trying to find possible answers to all the questions raised above by analysing Frank's relationship to his family, especially to his father and mother, and to other people who played an important role in his life.

NEUBUCH! 2007. 52 S. 210 mm 215 mm x 149 mm x 7 mm; 56514

[KW: Irland / Literatur]

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Eger, Thomas: Love and dramatic genre - Approaches to the topic of love in three Shakespearean plays, GRIN VERLAG; GRIN VERLAG, August 2007, Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3638744965
Examination Thesis aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld, 71 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Abstract: Love is a central topic in Shakespeare's plays. Many of his couples have gained a status of immortality: Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, or Beatrice and Benedick are only a few examples. These lovers share one experience, which Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream sums up very clearly:The course of true love never did run smooth ... (1,1,134)This dilemma is the raw material I am interested in. I will take three Shakespearean plays with love as their central issue and examine the protagonists' courses of love in them. This involves the beginning, the obstacles in the way, the reactions to these obstacles and the final failure or success to overcome them. The plays chosen are Romeo and Juliet, All's Well that Ends Well, and The Taming of the Shrew. In the First Folio edition the first one is classified as belonging to the literary form of tragedy, the latter two as comedies. This leads me to the second element in the title, which is dramatic genre. What Northrop Frye says about comedy is also valid for tragedy:If a play in a theatre is subtitled 'a comedy', information is conveyed to a potential audience about what kind of thing to expect, and this type of information has been intelligible since before the days of Aristophanes.One such expectation concerns a play's mood. Here lies a fundamental difference between tragedy and comedy. Generally speaking, the audience expects that a comedy creates a happy mood and a tragedy a sad one. However, I am not alone finding that Romeo is a rather happy play over long stretches, whereas The Taming and All's Well are anything but thoroughly happy pieces. In these three dramas Shakespeare only partly fulfils the expectations, which are evoked. Their generic structure does not generate a consistent mood. So what are the causes of this inconsistency

NEUBUCH! 2007. 64 S. 210 mm 212 mm x 151 mm x 10 mm; Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V56312

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